Screenshotted to avoid getting the OP harassed , but Iām realizing that a lot younger folks truly have no idea why weāre saying Endo, Willo, Tulpas, etc are ableist.
So hereās a quick explainer for you.
In the capacity that systems are created, the Endogenic Umbrella cannot exist. The brain doesnāt just become a system. Itās a mental disorder caused by consistent abuse that makes the brain decide that being whole will only cause more stress. Once the brain learns this neat trick to avoid stress, it will do it over and over again for little stresses.
Endogenics as a general group claims that they have formed alters without the initial big trauma and therefore are not disordered. As Alters are a symptom not a cause for the disorder itself, calling yourself an āEndogenic Systemā is the equivalent of putting pepper in your nose and saying youāre allergic to pollen because you sneezed.
It would be perfectly fine if Endogenics and their Umbrella of Willos and Tulpas stayed in their own corner as a separate more spiritual thing. Maybe with a focus on making imaginary friends as a thought exercise. But instead, Endogenics are coming into system spaces and claiming to be the same as the very real mental disorder. If you are not a system, why are you trying to join system spaces?
And before folks come and tell that Endos arenāt doing that, I am an admin on a CDD Discord. Even with our stance publicly stating we are Anti-Endos, plenty of Endos come into the Discord anyway.
You canāt be like āWeāre the pepper sniffing community! Completely removed from the seasonal allergy community, we promiseā but then march into spaces where it says āOnly people with seasonal allergies allowedā
This is not about young folks who donāt think they have trauma because they donāt remember it. This is not about folks who are genuinely young children who do not know any better. This is about the adults who are making 2+2=6 and then getting upset when folks are telling them it actually equals 4.
Youāre not evil if youāre a child and you want alters. I can assure you, Endogenics do make having a system LOOK fun even though the reality is, itās headaches, dissociation, and feeling like you lost days of your life.
You ARE sick. (In the most literal sense.) No healthy person wishes to be ill and I hope that one day you get the help you deserve to understand your own behavior.
This explainer was not quick. I am sorry. I had more that I wanted to say than I thought-
